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CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Phillies manager Ryne Sandberg said Wednesday that Ryan Howard will start at first base this season, despite plans to rebuild the team and attempts to trade the declining slugger. ...

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When he continued a steady rise in effectiveness through the first half of 2013 — he was 8-6 with a 3.68 ERA through 19 starts at the All-Star break that season — it seemed he was setting himself up for the four-year, $50 million contract that solid middle-rotation pitchers like Matt Garza and Ubaldo Jimenez had received in the last couple of years.

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Montgomery has bounced back enough from the cancer and debilitating treatment to return to the organization, but that return will come as the Phillies’ Chairman. The 68-year-old native Philadelphian takes that title from the man he succeeded, Bill Giles, who made the same honorific move to chairman 18 years ago.

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When Pat Gillick, drenched in players’ champagne, his own tears and syrupy elation of Philadelphia fans, stepped to the microphone after the Phillies won the 2008 World Series, he went out of his way to thank Ed Wade, his predecessor as general manager, for the foundation of talent he had left behind.

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When the Phillies decided to make it known that Cole Hamels could be had in lieu of any big-market teams falling short while trying to sign a pitching ace in free agency, any front office that so much as turned over a Hamels baseball card was said to have an interest.

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CHERRY HILL, N.J. >> Las Vegas has spoken about what it thinks of the Phillies’ chances for success in 2015. You can get the Phillies at 250-1 odds to win the 2015 World Series. Only the Twins are that long of longshots along with a team that two short years ago was considered more than 25 times as likely to win it all.

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PHILADELPHIA >> When the Phillies revealed their minor-league rosters as spring training wound down a year ago, those with a decent amount of knowledge about the system took a look at the roster of the Clearwater Threshers and said to anyone who knew enough to care, “Uh oh.”